Twitter's New 'Quality Filter' Helps You Keep Your Timeline Bully-Free

In early-February, news got out about Twitter Inc's

CEO Dick Costolo admitting that the company was not particularly successful in controlling abuse and harassment. Ever since, they have made major efforts to control this – to some extent. The latest of these steps is the introduction of a new "quality filter" that lets verified users remove problematic, offensive, threatening and abusive tweets from their timelines.

It seems that, for now, the quality filter is only available for verified users. According to Techcrunch, the company has not said whether the function is on the way for non-verified users. While the feature is not exactly groundbreaking, since Twitter already offers a similar function called "tailored filtering," which allows verified users to edit the content they will get on their feeds, it certainly is advancement towards more effective moderation. In another step towards a bully-free Twitter, the company introduced last week a series of new reporting tools that make it easier for users to flag abusive tweets and alert authorities about threats to personal safety. Previous to this, in late February, the company had also announced that it had tripled the size of the support team focusing on handling abuse reports.